How Much to Trust AI (Where I Draw the Line With My Name On It)
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Speed is not judgment. When starting is nearly free, the scarce skill is choosing, and AI is an invention engine with no off switch. Put three checks around the tool: a human who approves, guardrails written down ahead of time, and a record you can go back to. Before AI does anything under your name, run the Skynet Check: could I explain it out loud, where does it leave my hands, have I checked it at the source, and has it earned more rope.
"Confidence isn't a citation."Jess Webber · Episode 38
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The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni
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In This Episode
- Why Jess is glad she never told her outreach automation to press send, and what five rounds of feedback taught her
- What happened when AI started inventing concepts inside a massive intellectual property project
- The two fears underneath AI drift: the practical one, where it makes things up with total confidence, and the quieter one, where you hand your thinking away
- Why discernment is far rarer than invention, and why AI is an invention engine with no off switch
- The three checks borrowed from the three branches of government: a human, guardrails, and a record
- The Skynet Check, four questions to run before AI does anything under your name
- The 10-80-10 split, and why the feedback you give is part of the work
- Why one-job skills beat one giant agent, using podcast show notes as the example
- What Jess trusts a daily dashboard to do, and the rules that keep it from sending, posting, publishing, or deleting
- Why she is going deep on a few tools instead of wide, and how she tests newer ones in small, reversible steps
Memorable Lines
- "Speed is a gift. It just isn't judgment. The judgment part is completely yours."
- "The scarce skill is no longer starting. It's choosing."
- "Confidence isn't a citation."
- "It's an invention engine with no off switch."
- "AI can propose, but I ratify."
Key Themes
- Discernment versus invention
- AI drift and confident guessing
- The Skynet Check
- Three checks borrowed from the three branches of government
- The 10-80-10 split
- Feedback as part of the work
- One-job skills over one big agent
- Earning trust in small, reversible steps
